Open Source Free Software Search Engines

Acquired by Wikia Search from LookSmart.

This project has all the right ideals, and was made open source again in 2007 July.

Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.

Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will start to change all that.

Update: Nick Lewis points out that Wikia's attempt to mix community-driven with for-privane-profit is likely to fail. Which is fine as OpenZuka's been planning on world domination all along. Steve Anderson noted the need for a nonprofit alternative months ago. Still, the key part of opening up algorithms, shared by OpenZuka, is worth keeping an eye on.

http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia

Building a new open global search engine.